Antiskid-chain-securing device



M. DEAN ANTISKID CHAIN SECURING DEVICE Bear; 18 M3,

Filed March 8, 1925, 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 IN VENTOR /71c HEAL DAN ATTORNEY I 2 Sheets-Sheet Z M DEAN ANTISKID CHAIN SECURING: DEVICE Filed March 8, 1923 Dec. 18 1923.

INVENTOR N10110:; .D'li/V ATTORNEY Fatented Dec. l, 1923.

raise MICHAEL DEAN, OF WEBSTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

ANTISKID-Cl-IAIN-SEGUBING DEVICE.

Application filed March 8, 1923. Serial No. 623,801.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, MICHAEL DEAN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Webster, in the county of Westmoreland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Antiskid-Chain-Securing Devices; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, concise, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

. This invention relates to improvements in securing devices for vehicle wheels or tire anti-skid chains, having for an object to provide a chain securing device of such construction and arrangement as will permit of a dual use, first, as a locking means for holding the demountable rim Securing lugs in proper position whereby to prevent displacement of the rim and second, as an of fectual securing means for anti-skid chains, when it becomes necessary to employ the same. 1

It is likewise an object ofthe invention to provide an anti-skid chain securing device including means for varying the extent of engagement or tension of the chains about the vehicle wheel tire or tread in order that the same may be properly retained in position.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out hereinafter.

In order that the invention and its mode of operation may be readily understood by persons skilled in the art, I have in the ac companying illustrative drawings, and in the detailed following description based thereon, set out one possible embodiment of the same.

7 Inthese drawings v I Figure 1' is a side elevation of a vehicle wheel equipped with the invention;

Figure 2 is an enlarged detail in side ele vat-ion showing one of the anti-skid chain securing devices;

Figure 3 is an enlarged fragmentary ver tical transverse section through the tire and felly portion of a wheel equipped with the anti-skid chain securing device; and,

Figure 4c is a fragmentary detail in elevation showing the manner in which certain of the links of the anti-skid chains are enaged with the adjustable anchoring means of the device. I

Having more particular reference to the drawings, in connection with which like characters of reference will designate corresponding parts throughout, the invention is particularly designed for use in securing those forms of vehicle anti-skid chains shown and described in my United States Patent Number 1,469,312, dated October 2, 1923, although, of course, it is to e be understood that the invention may be as readily and effectually used for securing various other forms or types of vehicle chains, such as conditions or preference may dictate. In the present embodiment, as above referred to, I have shown the invention used in conjunction with that type of anti-skid chain described and claimed in my United States patent above set out and in this particular embodiment, the numeral 1 indicates the pneumatic tire of the vehicle wheel which tire is engaged in the usual demountablerim 2 arranged upon or about the folly 3 of the vehicle wheel a.

It is usual, as will be understood, to secure the demountable rim 2 of the vehicle wheel in position upon the wheel folly and against displacement through the medium of-fastoning lugs which are retained in position by means of bolts adapted to receive the same thereover and with this in view, 1' pro- -vide transversely aligned openings in the wheel felly 3 adapted to receive therethrough bolts indicated by the numeral 5, certain of the ends of said bolts having inwardly disposed hooks 6 thereon and annular shoulders 7 formed adjacent the inner ends of said hooked portions as clearly shown in the Figures 2 and-3. These, bolts 5 are adapted to be engaged with demountable rim securing lugs 8 and 9 positioned adja cent the opposite sides of the wheel felly and having outwardly extended portions adapted to engage the opposite sides of the deinountable rim 2 whereby to prevent its lateraldisplacement. Locking nuts 10, of course, are turned into engagement with the screw threaded extremities of the various bolts 5 and serve as means for retaining the lugs 8 and 9 in their respective clamping positions with relation to the demountable rim 2.

Those fastening lugs indicated by the numeral 9 are provided with substantially right angularly formed extensions 11, the inner or free portions of which are provided with openings adapted to receive the screw wheel tire 1 are engaged in the eyes of the threaded shanks of elongated eye-bolts or anchoring means 12 therethrough, 'whereupon wing nuts 13 or other suitable fastening devices are turned into engagement with the screw threaded extremitiesof said bolts,

means for facilitating theengagement of certain of the links of 'the-anti-skid chain to be secured therein. 1

The anti-skid chains secured by the improved device may be. stated to include a plurality of transversely and diagonally disposed circumfcrentially arranged chains generally'indicated by the numeral-'16. The free ends of certain of these chains are adapted to be engaged in the various inwardly disposed hooks 6 of the bolts 5 adjacen't one side of thetvehicle wheelfelly, while the free links upon the opposite side of the wheel felly are adapted'to'be engaged inthe eyes of the various bolts 12'by way'oi the openings lo formed therein. These free links'of the anti-skid chain areof substantially' S-shaped formation as indicated in the Figure 3 by the numeral 17 and, as shown, are adapted'to have the free or inner loop portions thereof engaged with the adjacent hooks 6 and eyes of the eye-bolts 12. These links 17 serve to secure in proper po sition over the vehicle tire tread, certain of the transverse anti-skid chains thereof, while to secure the opposite ends of certain of the diagonally disposed anti-skid chains, a looped link 18 is connected to such opposite end and is adapted to have the intermediate portion thereof engaged with the inwardly disposed hooks 6 and the eyes of the eyebolts 12 in the manner shown in the Figures 1, 3 and 4.

In connecting the anti-skid'chains to the securing device, it of course will be understood that the' free links of certain of the ends thereof are first engaged with the inwardly disposed hooks 6, whereupon the links upon the opposite side of the-vehicle eye-bolts 12, whereuponthe locking nuts 13 are adjusted upon the screw threaded shanks of said bolts to'place the same as well as those chains engaged thereby under a tension sufii'cient to ensure of their proper positionin'g about the vehicle tire and over the tread.

When proper adjustment or tensioning of the vehicle anti-skid chain has been attained, the locking nuts 13 are then secured against reverse rotation by passing cotter pins 14 througlrthe transverse openings in the screw threaded 'portions orthev'arious eye bolts' 12.

ings in' the wheel felly,

" formed in the wheel; felly,

From the foregoing, it will be seen that I have provided a simple but very effectual form of anti-skid chain securing device,"

opposite sides whereby to prevent lateral displacement of such demountable rim.

Manifcstly, the construction shOWn' is capable of considerable modification-and such modification-as is within the scope of my claims, I consider withinthe spirit of'my invention.

I claim:

1. In combination with a vehicle wheel and the demountable rim thereof, transverse boltsengag'eable inopenings in the wheel telly, lugs engaged by said boltsupon the opposite sides of the demountable rim, certain of the ends of said bolts'havinghooks formed thereon and annular shoulders fadjacent the inner ends of said h ooks,'brackets secured to the opposite ends o-f the bolts and adjustable chain anchoring means mounted on the brac'ket's engageable with the adj acent endsof anti-skidch'ains. I

2. In combination with a vehicle wheel andthe demountable rim'thereof, transverse bolts engageable in openings in theq wheel telly, lugs clampingly-secured in positions upon the opposite sides of the demountable rim by said bolts, certain of said lugs having bracket-like extensions thereon, certain of and annular shoulders adjacentthe-inner ends of said hooks, and adjustable chain anchoring means mounted onthe-brackets.

3. In combination with a vehicle' wheel and anti-skid chains, means en'gageable with the wheel for securing said chains inposition over the tire thereof comprising'transversely disposed bolts engageable'in openlugs receivedup'on said bolts and clampingly engaged with the opposite sides of the demountable rim of the wheel, certain of' said lugs having bracket-like extensions the ends of said bolts having inwardly'd-isposed hooks and annular shoulders formed thereon, and eye-boltsadjustably engaged in the free extremities of said bracket like thereon, certain of extensions adapted to'receive certain of-the links of said anti-skid links upon the opposite ends ofsaidantiskid chains being engaged'in the inwardly disposed hooks.

chains therein, I the a. In combination with a vehicle' Wheel and anti-skid chains thereof, transversely disposed bolts engageable inopenings lugs received upon saidbolts and-*clainpingly engaged.- thereby upon the opposite sidesofthefdemountable rim; certain oi said lugs having substantially right angularly shaped extentions of said right angular extensions of the sions formed thereon provided with openlugs adapted to receive the free links upon m ings in their free portions, certain of the the opposite ends of the anti-skid chains ends of said bolts having inwardly disposed therein.

hooks thereon, said hooks being adapted to In witness whereof I have hereunto set be engaged in certain of the ends of the antimy hand. skid chains, and eye-bolts adjustably engaged through the openings in the free por- MICHAEL DEAN. 

